Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02

MADISON. Feb. 23.-Seventeen remon-
strances were received against any change
in the law relat tive to contract labor: also
petitions in favor of womans suffrage ana
for local option by counties. Hr. Ham
mels resolution, requiring all select com
mittees and committees OF one to report by
March l, was taken up. On motion OF Mr..
Humphrey, the date was chang d to March
10. The resolution was then adopt ed.
The resolution authorizing the joint com;
mittee on fsh and game to hire a
clerk for a period OF fourteen days
was adopted. At the evening session
the following measures were ordered TO q
third reading: The bill to create the office
Of assistant district ttorney in Milwaukee
County, and to APP ropriate SO, 600 to the
commissioners OF public lands to enable
them to carry out chapter $50, laws of
1888, in reference to the drainage OF certain
lands in Manitowoc and Calumet Counties
The latter bill has q proviso that the par
ties to be affected will also raise 5000 for
the same purpose before the act takes ef
feet.
MADISON, Feb. 24.-Mr. Cooper's joint
resolution, proposing constitutional
amendment prohibiting contract prison Ia
Dor was adopted; also the joint resolution
authorizing the joint com mittee on fish and
game to hire q clerk for a period fourteen
days. The Assembly bill appropriating to
Joseph Baker, of Madison, for horses
slaughtered by the state veterinarian to
prevent the spread of contagious diseases
among horses, the sum OF $393.33
was concurred in. Bills indefinitely
postponed: To restore capital pun
ishment in cases of murder; relating
to roads and bridges; lit required the
county board to let the control OF any
bridge or road constructed by the county
to the town where it is located; requiring
the tax-lists in county to be printed by
the lowest bidder; providing that the
county clerk, register OF deeds and county
Judge shall constitute board of assess
ment; authorizing circuit judges to appoint
four court commissionersin each county OF
his circuit; providing that the salary OF dis
trict attorney in counties exceeding 5000
in population shall not be less than 81 900
per year
MADISON Feb. 25.-Bills were passed: Ap
propriat ting to the board of university re-
gents $4,000 for the purpose Of roofing
and enclosing Science Hall; appropriating
50 900 for each Of the years 1887 and 1888
to the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association;
to authorize the city OF Chippewa Falls to
issue bonds to pay off it's indebtedness; to
authorize the commissioners OF public
lands to sell, for the sum of $50,
the northwest quarter OF the south
west quarter OF section "a, in
town 81, north of range 3 west, situated
in the county OF jackson; to include the
Minnesota Scandinavian Relief Associa-
ton under chapter "a of the revised stat
utes, relating to interpretations; to pro-
vide for the appointment OF an assistant
state librarian: providing for a register in
rebate for Dane County, at an annual
salary o: S |, 900; to incorporate the city OF
Onalaeka; to amend the charter Of the city
of Milwaukee, and to create the Fifteenth
Wars of said city; Tor an act to amend
the charter OF the city OF Milwaukee,
and to create the Sixteenth Ward of
said city. Assembly bills were concurred
in: To legalize an act OF the Common
Council OF the city of Milwaukee; to incor-
porate the city Of Merrill; to amend the
harter OF the city of Merrill. The joint
resolution authorizing the secretary Of
sts te to have printed and bound 10000
copies of the liets OF Wisconsin soldiers
d to distribute the same among the
soldiers OF the state was not adopted.